Skill-related Components of Physical Fitness

1. Skill-related Components of Physical Fitness • Those which help a person perform motor tasks.

2. The Skill-Related Components • Agility • Balance • Coordination • Power • Reaction Time • Skill-related Fitness • Speed

3. Why is Skill-Related Fitness Important? • Good levels of skill-related fitness components can help your performance in a variety of sports and other activities. Learning a skill you enjoy enables you to maintain an active lifestyle. • Knowing the level of your skill-related fitness can help you select a sport or lifetime activity best suited to your skills. • Sports participation helps students achieve social wellness.

4. Understanding the Skill-related Components of Physical Fitness • AGILITY= The ability to start, stop, and move the body quickly and in different directions. • Examples: Soccer, Racquetball, Basketball, and Tennis require changing directions while maintaining body control.

5. Understanding the Skill-related Components of Physical Fitness • BALANCE= A kind of coordination which allows you to maintain control of your body while stationary or moving. • Examples: Skiing, gymnastics, skating, dance, and surfing require a high level of balance.

6. Understanding the Skill-related Components of Physical Fitness • COORDINATION= The ability to do a task integrating movements of the body and different parts of the body. • Examples: Golf, tennis, basketball, volleyball, and racquetball require coordination.

7. Understanding the Skill-related Components of Physical Fitness • POWER= The ability to combine strength and speed in movement. • Examples: High levels of power are needed to do well in volleyball, football, high jumping, throwing an object(shot put, softball, discus) and vertical jumping.

8. Understanding the Skill-related Components of Physical Fitness • REACTION TIME= The time required to start a movement after being alerted to the need to move. • Examples: Quick reactions are very important in activities like track, swimming, baseball, and karate.

9. Understanding the Skill-related Components of Physical Fitness • SPEED= The ability to move your total body quickly from one point to another. • Examples: High speed is required for activities like running the bases in baseball or softball, sprinting in track, or running for a touchdown.

10. Factors Determining Your Skill-related Fitness • Heredity- -Speed and reaction time are particularly limited by heredity. -In spite of limited natural ability, many people have enough determination and desire to achieve high skill levels.

11. Factors Determining Your Skill-related Fitness • Practice- Learning a skill takes time and effort to improve and/or to reach their full skill potential in a particular activity. • Practice leads to greater success!

12. Specific Training • It is important to identify the specific skill-related components which will contribute to successful performance of the sport and then train to improve these components. • Example: To improve agility, reaction time, and speed to play tennis, practice footwork drills without hitting a ball.